Updating BIOS from A04 to A05 on 650N workstation.

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 8/14/06, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 01:41:01PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > On 8/14/06, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> wrote:
> > > Try http://fwupdate.com/ for the yummified easy method. :-)
> > >
> >
> > Will there be updates for the Centrino chips there? We are trying to
> > figure out how to deploy that patch.
>
> By this you mean new microcode?  Dell includes recent microcode in
> each of the BIOS updates that are released.  We don't currently offer
> a method of updating the CPU microcode separately from the BIOS.  At
> OLS last month the issue came up in several conversations, but AFAIK
> no progress has been made on developing a solution to provide and
> install microcode separately yet...
>

This is some sort of microcode update to Centrino chips. I don't know
exactly how it is supposed to be installed, etc beyond what has been
printed on Windows boxes.

The fix will be very important because it can allow a machine with an
ipw to be rooted remotely if the card is 'listening'.

> Thanks,
> Matt
>
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> Matt Domsch
> Software Architect
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>


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